2018 Open Championship

The 2018 Open Championship was the 147th Open Championship, and was held from 19–22 July 2018 at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. It was the eighth Open Championship to be played at Carnoustie. Playing conditions were unusual as a result of the heatwave in Scotland which had produced brown, dry and sun-baked fairways and brown rough. The fairways played quickly, enabling several players to hit drives that covered over 400 yards.Francesco Molinari posted a bogey-free final round of 69 to win his first major championship. Molinari finished two shots ahead of Kevin Kisner, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Xander Schauffele. He became the first Italian player to win a major.

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2018 Ryder Cup

The 42nd Ryder Cup Matches were held in France from 28 to 30 September 2018 on the Albatros Course of Le Golf National in Guyancourt, a suburb southwest of Paris. It was the second Ryder Cup to be held in Continental Europe (rather than Great Britain or Ireland), after the 1997 contest, which was held in Spain. The United States were the defending champions, but had lost the last five matches in Europe, having last won there in 1993. Europe regained the Ryder Cup, winning by 171⁄2 points to 101⁄2.

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2019 Masters Tournament

The 2019 Masters Tournament was the 83rd edition of the Masters Tournament and the first of golf's four major championships in 2019, held between April 11 and 14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.Tiger Woods won his fifth Green Jacket, and fifteenth major, by one stroke ahead of three runners-up. It left him one shy of Jack Nicklaus's record six Masters wins, and three short of his record eighteen major wins. At age 43, he became the eleventh oldest player to win a major, and the second oldest Masters winner, again only bettered by Nicklaus who won at age 46. It was 11 years after his last major win, the 2008 U.S. Open, and 14 years since his last Masters win beating the previous record of 13 years held by Gary Player. Due to the high profile of Woods, and his storied fall from the top of the game due to personal issues and injuries, the victory generated a large amount of publicity around the world, and is regarded as one of the great sporting comebacks.Woods only emerged to lead the tournament in the final round, when Francesco Molinari, who had been leading the tournament, hit his ball into the water on the 12th hole and then again on the 15th after hitting a tree. It was the first time Woods won a major when not leading after the 54th hole.Most of the media, and the Las Vegas bookmakers, placed Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, and Dustin Johnson the pre-tournament favorites. McIlroy, the only player to finish in the top ten in the previous five Masters, came into the tournament as the Players champion and with seven consecutive top-10 PGA Tour finishes, but could only finish tied for 21st. Two-time runner-up Rose came in as world number one, but missed the cut. Johnson, who came in as world number two, and had a dominant win in the 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship, finished tied for second.A Masters record 65 players made the cut, including three amateurs. The leading amateur, and winner of the Silver Cup, was Norwegian Viktor Hovland who had qualified as the U.S. Amateur champion.

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Carnoustie Golf Links

Carnoustie Golf Links is in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. Carnoustie has four courses – the historic Championship Course, the Burnside Course, the Buddon Links Course and a free-to-play short, five-hole course called The Nestie. Carnoustie Golf Links is one of the venues in the Open Championship rotation and has hosted golf's oldest major on eight occasions (1931, 1937, 1953, 1968, 1975, 1999, 2007, 2018), as well as the Senior Open Championship in 2010 and 2016 and the Women's British Open in 2011 and 2021.

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Costantino Rocca

Costantino Rocca (born 4 December 1956) is an Italian golfer. He was long known as the most successful male golfer that Italy has produced, until the 2018 success of Francesco Molinari, who credited Rocca as an inspiration to him following his Open victory. After a long career on the European Tour, Constantino is now playing on the European Seniors Tour. He has five European Tour wins and is best known for his second-place finish in the 1995 Open Championship, and his hole in one in 1995 Ryder Cup.

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Edoardo Molinari

Edoardo Molinari (born 11 February 1981) is an Italian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour, where he is a three-time winner. He was also the 2005 U.S. Amateur champion; 2009 Challenge Tour Rankings leader; winner, with his brother Francesco, of the 2009 World Cup; and a member of the 2010 European Ryder Cup winning team. He has won professional tournaments on four of six continents on which golf is played: Europe, South America, Africa and Asia.

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Francesco Molinari

Francesco Molinari (born 8 November 1982) is an Italian professional golfer. He won the 2018 Open Championship, his first and only major victory, and the first major won by an Italian professional golfer. The Open Championship win capped a successful season in which he won the 2018 BMW PGA Championship, his fifth win on the European Tour, and the Quicken Loans National, his first PGA Tour win. At the end of the season, Molinari won 5 out of 5 points as Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup. Molinari has been in the top 100 of the World Rankings continuously since the end of 2008. Playing with his brother Edoardo, they won the 2009 Omega Mission Hills World Cup, Italy's only win in the event. Molinari won the 2010 WGC-HSBC Champions and has represented Europe in three winning Ryder Cup teams, in 2010, 2012 and 2018.

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Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (born 4 July 1911 Bologna; died 8 August 1996 Bologna) was a prominent Italian opera conductor. He studied piano and composition at Bologna, and graduated from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome in 1938. He made his debut at La Scala in 1946 and his Covent Garden debut in 1955. His account of Puccini's Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli is commonly regarded as one of the greatest recordings of that work.

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Molinari

Molinari is an Italian language occupational surname for a miller. Notable people with this surname include: Adriana Molinari, American (née Argentine) pornographic actress Alberto Molinari (born 1965), Italian actor, producer, and director Alessandro Molinari (1898–1962), Italian first General Director of ISTAT Anna Molinari, Italian fashion designer, founder of Blumarine and other brands in the Blufin group Antonio Molinari (bishop) (1626–1698), Roman Catholic Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano Antonio Molinari (runner) (born 1967), Italian male mountain runner Bernardino Molinari (1880–1951), Italian composer and conductor Carlos Molinari, Argentinian businessman and real-estate developer Caroline Molinari (born 1986), Brazilian female artistic gymnast Cecilia Molinari (born 1949), former Italian sprinter Dave Molinari (born 1955), American sports journalist Edoardo Molinari (born 1981), Italian professional golfer and brother of Francesco Molinari Elisa Molinari, Italian academic, Fellow in the American Physical Society Emilio Molinari (born 1939), Italian politician Ettore Molinari (1867–1926), Italian chemist and anarchist Federico Molinari (footballer) (born 1979), Argentine footballer Federico Molinari (gymnast) (born 1984), Argentine male artistic gymnast and part of the national team Francesca Molinari, Italian economist Francesco Molinari (born 1982), Italian professional golfer and brother of Edoardo Molinari Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (1911–1996), Italian opera conductor Giuseppe Molinari (born 1938), Roman Catholic Archbishop of L'Aquila Guido Molinari (born 1933), Canadian artist Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912), Belgian economist Guy Molinari (1928–2018), American politician and father of Susan Molinari Jean Baptiste Molinari, French head chef Jean-Claude Molinari (born 1931), French tennis player Jim Molinari (born 1954), American basketball coach and lawyer Karl-Theodor Molinari (1915–1993), officer in the German Army and later in the Bundeswehr Luciano Molinari (1880–1940), Italian stage and film actor Luigi Molinari (1866–1919), Italian anarchist and lawyer, publisher of the periodical L'Università popolare Luis Molinari (born 1929), Ecuadorian artist Manlio Molinari (born 1964), retired Sammarinese athlete Maurizio Molinari (born 1964), Italian journalist Meredith Molinari, American model and reality show host, Michelino Molinari da Besozzo (c. 1370 – c.

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Tony Finau

Milton Pouha "Tony" Finau (born September 14, 1989) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.

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